Tharuneswar Portfolio

SITE PLAN

YOUTH HOSTEL

Individual Academic project

A Short stay hostel for the youth

Traveling to the city individually or for groups

The site in located in T-Nagar Chennai a central area famous for its commercial crowd. The site’s close proximity to the Railway station and mofussil bus terminus enabled the traveling youth to easily arrive at the Hostel.

The users here prefer to stay for a day to a month and they arrive here in a group or as individual. The major facilities that are required here is the rooms for both boys and girls, Administrative offices. Recreational facilities, and services

FORM DEVELOPMENT

The linearity of the site gave an opportunity to plan the hostel by taking the shape of the site.

All the individual units are imagined to be knit into a single ribbon link form running throughout the site.

SITE SECTION

The singular form is further divided into three blocks - Boys

Hostel, Girls Hostel

The central plaza which connects both the hostel blocks. It has the amenities and other recreational facilities.

All the three blocks are integrated by a cutout strip which runs from the boys to the girls hostel.

This open space leads to interaction at different levels . One at the individual hostel level and the other at the plaza level.

The Hostel blocks have open space for activities in the center of the blocks as well as the terrace in the first floor.

Buffers are provided at both the ends of the site for better noise suppression and also privacy from the roads and the neighborhood.

The Dining and kitchen are placed near the site boundary to make services easier and also to avoid overcrowding the central plaza.

Hostel block - 1 Hostel block - 2

Dining and Kitchen

Boys hostel Girls hostel Plaza Parking

Central Plaza

YOUTH HOSTEL

The Plaza lies in the lowest level at the site and the levels gradually increase towards the hostels. This creates a hierarchy as well as provides the users with a good view of what is happening around the hostel campus. The space around the hostels also double up as a walking or jogging track. This track is fully pedestrian and vehicles are allowed only in case of an emergency or to provide services to the hostels.

Exposed brick masonry s used to articulate the facades and the roof of the plaza buildings are covered with vegetation to make it a part of the ground . The plaza is accessible on both the sides and one part of it is an office for registration and the other part is entertainment room with indoor games and a cafe.

SPACES OF INTERACTION VIEW FROM THE GIRLS HOSTEL BLOCK YOUTH HOSTEL

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

HOSPICE

Undergraduate Thesis Project

Terminally ill is a term used to refer to people who are suffering a chronic illness and are in the final stages of their lives.

These people spend the last days of their time alone in a small dull hospital room full of sadness and pain and the smell of medicines when they can happily spend time with family and friends in a very social and embracing environment with care takers who understand them.

The most avoided word while having conversations is death. But in reality death is a certainty, death is not a thing to be afraid of. Being scared of death and not talking of it only worsens the situation.

USERS OF HOSPICE

THE SITE

The users are categorized as the care receivers , care givers and the visitors

The care receivers are the patients and the care givers are the family , nurses and the doctors.

The site is located in Perur, Coimbatore. It is in the foothills of Western Ghats and has a Stream that runs inside the site. It provides a calm and serene environment for the users of the hospice.

The topography and the natural elements of the site play a major role in the planning in the planning of the site .

The stream divides the site into two parts making it easier to separate users into two regions of the hospice as Children zone and the adult zone.

A central axis running at the heart of both the zones act as the primary pedestrian movement facilitators in the campus.

Both the pathways meet at the western end of the site forming a bridge across the stream to connect the two zones

It is also used as an emergency /service route.

Considering the axis as the main focus of development the two zones are further divided into three smaller zones based on the usage and privacy.

The smaller zones are named Public, Semi Private and Private. The public zone has the offices and the Consultation areas and the Private Spaces are the accommodation and Therapy areas.

The spaces within the zones are planned in way that they provide a lot of green open spaces and views from most parts of the built spaces.

The accommodations are oriented towards the stream and has green pockets of space between them to maximize the connectivity with nature.

A Home for Terminally ill Cancer patients that provides care and support in the last stages of their lives

HOSPICE

The Adult Hospice Accommodation is the most crucial area of the campus. Users spend majority of their time in their rooms and most of the care is given to them in their rooms. These rooms are designed in way each room takes maximum advantage of the view to the water-body. The rooms share a pocket of green space which acts as a courtyard to the living areas.

The staggering of rooms was done to facilitate cross ventilation to the living areas . This staggering layout also helped in creating the green courtyard inside the rooms which brought in more light as well as took the hot air out .

The rooms opened out on both the directions creating interactions ar different levels.

THE ADULT RESIDENCES PLAN OF THE RESIDENCES

HOSPICE LIVING AREA KITCHEN PRIVATE THERAPY PRIVATE THERAPY PRIVATE THERAPY KITCHEN KITCHEN LIVING AREA COURTYARD SIT-OUT SIT-OUT SIT-OUT COURTYARD COURTYARD LIVING AREA

PLAN OF THE ADULT AND CHILDREN HOSPICE

The Dining hall is located in between the public areas , Nurse apartment and the Hospice accommodation for easier access.

CARE GIVERS ROOMS

The auxiliary road on the northern side acts as a service road and emergency evacuation route to the campus.

SERVICES

The Entrance leads the users to the public area consisting of Reception , Consultation block Admin office and the Palliative care Block

DINING HALL DINING HALL

THERAPY BLOCK

ADULT HOSPICE ACCOMMODATIONS CHILDREN HOSPICE

THERAPY BLOCK PLAY AREA NURSES APARTMENT

SERVICES

CARE GIVERS ROOMS

CONSULTATION BLOCK

The Children zone has exclusive spaces such as play area and activity rooms to keep the children engaged and interactive .

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

PALLIATIVE CARE BLOCK

RECEPTION

CONSULTATION BLOCK

The Children zone relatively less proportion of users compared to the Adult zone thus taking up very little built space.

HOSPICE

CARE GIVERS ROOMS

ACCOMMODATIONS KITCHEN

POST PRODUCTION - STUDIO

Individual Academic project

The studio is envisioned not only to solve the requirement for a Post Production studio , But also as a public gallery cum experience centre to showcase the history, works and the artists to the general public.

The requirements that were stated are a state of art studio for Post - Production stage activities , office rooms for directors and producers, a mini production stage and public galleries and activity spaces.

USERS

A Film Post - Production studio owned by the actors association that also showcases its achievements.

SITE PLAN

The cafe is the place where all the users have the chance to interact . It is also a place for the public to sit and read or work.

Activity space is a multi-functional space used to host events project movies and documentaries and also play games .

Production

The core idea of the design is interaction, The public , artists and students are encouraged to interact in the spaces like gallery , cafe and activity area

THE PROCESS

Theatre

Offset

Being a near square site the geometry of the site is retained.

Public Strip

A strip is created for the pubic and pedestrian access.

Focal point

The form is developed based on a central focal point

Extrusion

The geometry excluding the Public v is extruded to make built spaces.

All the users except the public enter through the two pedestrian pathways along the sides of the Art gallery .

Exhibition Gallery

The public strip starts with the art gallery and continues through the cafe to the activity spaces in the southern boundary.

POST - PRODUCTION STUDIO

T-NAGAR THE SITE

Studio Artists Public Students

Area Post -BlockProduction Theatre School

Offices Cafe Informal Seating Activity Space

Skylight

Courtyard Cover

Movie Theatre

Theatre Office

Sound Mixing Studio

Editing Studios

Production Stage

Director Offices

Stage Gallery

Cafe Activity Space

Public pathways

Theatre School

This Fully pedestrian strip is the connection between the public zones It restricts the public from accessing the offices and the studios at the same time connecting them visually to various activities in the site.

AXONOMETRIC FLOOR PLANS PUBLIC STRIP AND CAFE

POST - PRODUCTION STUDIO

Students use it to play in their leisure

Movies can be screened in the evenings

Concerts or theatrical events v here

studio,live room ,adr,Foley,music room etc..

PLAY / GAMES MOVIE SCREENING MUSIC / THEATRE

MULTI-PURPOSE ACTIVITY AREA POST - PRODUCTION STUDIO

THE POST PRODUCTION BLOCK The post production Block handles the film making after the pre-production process ends. The major facilities of the post production facility Include the editing room,dubbing

Individual Academic project

Work done in the 1st Semester of Masters in Architectual Design Program.

Construction of Latch Window

CONSTRUCTION OF A LATCH WINDOW

Structural Bay Design

Individual Academic project

Work done in the 1st Semester of Masters in Architectual Design Program.

STRUCTURAL BAY DESIGN

Individual Academic project

Work done in the Masters in Architectual Design Program.

Bhadra Plaza Museum

SITE PLAN GROUND LEVEL PLAN BASEMENT LEVEL VVVVVVVVVVV PLAZA MUSEUM

CEPT - FA Studios

Individual Academic project

Work done in the Masters in Architectural Design Program.

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE STUDIO BLOCKS FLOOR PLAN OF ONE SINGLE STUDIO BLOCK

CEPT - FA STUDIOS

CEPT - FA Studios

Individual Academic project

Work done in the Masters in Architectural Design Program.

Wall Sections of Studios - North wall Wall Sections of Studios - South wall

CEPT - FA STUDIOS

Wall Sections of Studios - West wall

CEPT - GRAND JURY HALLS

Individual Academic project

DETAILS OF TACKBOARDS AT SINGLE VOLUME

Work done in the Masters in Architectural Design Program.

DETAILS OF TACKBOARDS AT DOUBLE VOLUME

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE GRAND JURY HALLS

CEPT - GRAND JURY HALLS

Models and Woodworking

Individual Academic project

Work done in the Masters in Architectual Design Program.

AND WOODWORKING

MODELS

EAST ELEVATION

Residence at Chennai Residence project for two brothers and their family at Avadi, Chennai. Under Construction project

Project Role : Project Architect Responsibilities carried : Design development, Client co-ordination, Site visits and Drawings.

The brief from the client was to design a Ground plus two Storey residence with extra parking space and spacious interiors.

As the site’s frontage was very short and the bulit structure was of 35 feet high, The front facade created a lot of opportunity to play with vertically .